In fact
In fact adverb - In reality or actuality.
Straight away and in fact are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Straight away" instead an adverb phrase "In fact".
Straight away
In fact and straight away are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "In fact" instead an adverb phrase "Straight away".
Both terms in one sentence
- Gideon is onto him straight away and bluffs him by referring to the latest victim, a pedophile priest, having been been dealt a Groin Attack, when in fact the real killer didn't kill him that way.
Source: Taking the Heat - In fact, when said brother was sent to jail for doing something about it, the father bailed him out and then told him that he threatened all the girls' fathers if they don't transfer them to other schools straight away.
Source: Kids Are Cruel / Film - A bait-and-switch subversion: Spooks (AKA MI-5) introduced Lisa Faulkner as a regular, but her character Helen was brutally and unceremoniously killed off in the second episode, a move aimed to illustrate straight away that this was in fact going to be a series where Anyone Can Die.
Source: Contractual Immortality
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